I’m trying to cut my food costs down to £30 a week (Just for food) I know I can easily live off £30 a week, I’m thinking about doing a big £50 shop from Morrisons every 2 weeks for delivery, buying 4 breaded cod, 4 small meat pies, 4 chicken Kievs, whole chicken, Fajita ready meal box,500g mince, hotdogs, 8 in a jar (2 meals) Frozen stuff. Then getting everything else like my essentials and fresh bread. cheese. and fresh veg,
In-between buy fresh veg, milk and bread, other small items, so maybe £10 for the in-between weeks.
Is this sensible? I want to each healthy but maintain my food bill at £120 a month. I only cook for me. Is this doable?
Sounds a plan. If you get hungry and you need to buy other things then I guess it’s not working.
Your in a lucky position as you only need to look after yourself. If you can handle eating the same thing for two days in a row you can save more simply cooking a batch of food and freezing/keeping in fridge.
It takes some discipline but it’s worth the effort. It becomes harder when you need the same or less money to feed more…and we’ve plenty of people here who do just that.
I have to buy my own food. It’s supported living not a residential care home, if I lived in a care home all my benefits would go towards care costs, since its supported living this isn’t the case.